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...first photos of a famous baby are like Incan gold to paparazzi. What's a star to do? BRAD PITT and ANGELINA JOLIE sold snaps of Shiloh Nouvel for millions and gave the moolah to children's charities. They're not alone. Kevin Federline and Britney Spears took the reported $500,000 they got for the first photos of son Sean Preston and donated it to victims of Hurricane Katrina in Brit's home state, Louisiana...
BORN. To Angelina Jolie, 31, and Brad Pitt, 42, a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt; in Namibia...
...next to the Eiffel Tower on the Seine, the stars would seem to be aligned for Aboriginal art. Yunupingu was one of eight indigenous Australian artists invited to create work for the museum-not to hang on its walls, but rather to be woven through the fabric of Jean Nouvel's visionary architecture. For indigenous art curators Hetti Perkins and Brenda Croft, it was a chance to define something that has remained by its very essence indefinable...
...better to put paradox into concrete form than architect Nouvel? The light-sensitive fa?ade of his best-known building, the Institut du Monde Arabe, both veils and reveals the culture within, and for the MQB, it was his idea to hand over the administrative wing to the left of the museum's main entrance as a blank canvas for the Australian artists. While the building functions as a bookshop, curatorial offices and library, it was also Nouvel's idea for it to be viewed as a 3D artwork from the street. Every available window, wall, ceiling and column was seen...
...AIAC does that by looking as much to the future as the past. It repositions Aboriginal art by locating it outside the displays of historical pieces within MQB. As embodied in Nouvel's architecture, Aboriginal art is its own wildly independent spirit. In this way, the founder of Sotheby's Aboriginal art department in Australia, Tim Klingender, likens its appeal to that of world music. "I don't think it is part of the continuing tradition of Western art which begins in Greco-Roman times and goes through the Renaissance and ultimately terminates in Postmodernism," says Klingender. "It has cross...